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Nearly all homeless are adult men.
by ummonk 7y ago
Nearly all homeless are adult men.
- jlmorton 7y agoNot true. In San Francisco, 35% of homeless residents in the last point-in-time count identified as female, and another six percent identified as another non-male gender.
- sieabahlpark 7y agoSome would say 75% is the majority.
- sieabahlpark 7y ago65%, unable to edit my comment for some reason.
- aidenn0 7y agoFew would say 65% is "Nearly all"
- aidenn0 7y ago39% of homeless are female 20% of all homeless are under 18 Source: https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2018-AHAR-Part-1.pdf https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2018-AHAR-P... Page 11.
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- seanmcdirmid 7y agoThat isn’t true. First, you have to distinguish between the visible and invisible homeless. Homeless women who aren’t mentally ill or heavily into drugs are very likely to get access to a shelter at least, so you wouldn’t notice them (the same is true for men as well, just less so). And then you have mentally ill or heavily drug addicted women, you notice these in LA also. It isn’t clear to me why there are more men in this category than women, but perhaps they get more family or social support as well.
- ummonk 7y agoThe invisible homeless aren't the ones who would get harassed by the police.